Supporting device.



W. A FORSTER.

SUPPORTING DEVICE.

APPLlCATlON man AUG. us. me.

L 11. 71 7., Patented Apr. 3, 1917.

WILLIAM A. FORSTER, 0F PORT HURGN, MICHIGAN.

SUPPORTING DEVICE.

Application filed August 16, 19-16.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM A. Fonsrnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supporting Devices; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description' of. the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in supporting devices, and has for an object to provide an improved device that will serve at once as a hook beneath which may be secured a belt and a button for securing garments in closed position.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved supporting device which will be constructed of a single length of wire, which will be cheap in the manufacture, and have a double anchorage so as to resist to the maximum separation from the garment under strain.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel details of construction and combinations of parts more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application, and in which similar reference symbols indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a belt showing the improved attachment secured thereover and indicating suspender tabs fitted thereon.

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same.

Fig. 8 is a front elevational view of a coat with the improved device serving as a button therefor.

Fig. 4c is a rear view of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view showing another application of the device.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the improved supporting device.

Fig. 7 is a front elevational view thereof; and

Fig. 8 is a side view of the same with attached parts shown in dotted lines.

eferring more particularly to the drawings, the improved device is constructed of a single length or strand of wire having its terminals rolled to provide eyes 1 and 2; these eyes are adapted to receive the securing Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3, 191?. Serial no. 115,288.

or anchoring means whereby the device is connected to the garment. It is obvious that the eyes 1 and 2 may be stitched as, for instance, to the trouser band 3, as shown in Fig. 2, or such eyes may be attached thereto as by the rivets 1' or the clips 5; both of which fastening means are illustrated in Fig. It is to be understood, however, that otherfastening means may be employed.

From the eyes 1 and 2 the wire strand is bent, forming upwardly converging arms 6 and 7, and at the upper ends of such arms'is bent over, as indicated at 8, to provide a hook. The members of the hook are displaced, as shown at 9 and 10, to provide a bulged portion for retaining the button loop after the garment part or suspension device has been secured thereover.

Below such bulged portion formed by the displaced members 9 and 10, the hook is bent in, supplying a bill 11 which is adapted to clamp over the belt 12, as shown in Fig. 1 or the garment parts shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, and to securely hold the same in position. The flaring extremity 13 is bent from the lower end of the bill 11 in order to guide the belt 12 or other garment part beneath such hook.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the device is peculiarly adaptable to sustain a belt 12 in place by reason of the en agement of the hook and the bill 11, and to moreover provide abutton for receiving the loops 14: of the suspender tabs 15. When such loop 14 is in place, as shown in these figures, the bulged portion of the hook formed by the displaced members 9 and 10 will prevent accidental displacement of the tabs 15, but will readily permit the removal of the button loops by turning the tabs sidewise in a manner that is believed well understood.

In Figs. 3 and 4, the utility of the device is illustrated as applied to such garments as coats or vests, the open front portions 16 and 17 of which are provided with the usual buttons and button holes. The improved supporting device, as herein described, is secured to the inner face of the side 17, as advantageously disclosed in Fig. 1, the eyes 1 and 2 thereof being attached by rivets or other securing means. The hook extends about the front face of the coat and fulfils the function of the bottom, as plainly shown in Fig. 3. In this instance the bent-in bill 11 serves to retain the edge 18 of the coat side 16 in a flat, neat position against the opposite side 17 of said garment.

In Fig. 5 the appliance is shown in use on mechanics overalls or like garments 19, wherein the same fulfils both the function of the button, as indicated at 20, and of a suspender attachment, as indicated at 21.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details of construction and arrangements of parts Without departing from the spirit of my invention, and therefore I do not Wish to be limited to such features except as may be required by the claim.

I claim:

A device of the character described comprising a one piece resilient wire structure bent to provide curved diverging arms extending in the same plane and adapted to lie fiat against the inside of a garment near its edge, an eye at the end of each of said arms adapted to secure the same to the garment, a loop formed where said arms converge, the structure at said loop being adapted to be bent about the edge of the garment to form a resilient hook adapted to extend over the outside of the garment, and adapted to engage a button-hole, said hook being provided with a bulged portion for preventing the same from accidentally disengaging from the button-hole and with an inwardly curved portion adapted to engage the edge of an adjacent garment part and confining the same in a fiat, smooth manner against the first-named garment part, said hook being provided with a U-shaped tongue curved outward for guiding the second-mentioned garment part therein, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I aiiix my signature.

WILLIAM A. FOR-STER.

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